Kanye West, an American rapper,
says God has been calling him to his service for a long time but he never
realized this because the devil distracted him.

The rapper disclosed this while
speaking about his “spiritual awakening” alongside Joel Osteen, an American
televangelist, during a recent ‘Sunday Service’ performance in Osteen’s
megachurch.

Making an example of himself as
the “greatest artiste God has ever created,” West said the devil had earlier
coveted the best businessmen, designers and musicians to himself but that a
paradigm shift has now placed him on the side of God.

“I know that God has been calling
me for a long time and the devil has been distracting me for a long time. When
I was in my lowest points, God was there with me, sending me visions and
inspiring me. I remember sitting in the hospital at UCLA after having a mental
breakdown,” he said.

“I was drawing a church and
writing ‘start a church in the middle of Calabasas’.Even after that I made the
Life of Pablo album and said this is a gospel album. I didn’t know how to
totally make a gospel album. Christians that were around were too beaten into
submission by society to not profess the gospel to me because I was a
superstar.

“But the only superstar is Jesus.
All of that arrogance and confidence and cockiness that y’all seen me use
before God is now using for him. Because every time I stand up, I feel that I’m
standing up and drawing a line in the sand and saying I’m here in service to
God and no weapons armed against me shall prosper.”

“It’s like the devil stole all
the good producers, all the good musicians, all the good artists, all the good
designers, all the good business people and said, ‘you gotta come over and work
for me.’ And now the trend is going to change. Jesus has won the victory. Now
the greatest artist God ever created is now working for him.”

The 42-year-old, who had earlier
described himself as the “greatest artiste of all time,” also spoke about the
drive behind his parenting measures — not long after his wife had revealed he
removed TVs and makeup kits from their kids’ rooms.

“Protect kids from the
indoctrination of the media, the thousands of images that are fed to children
by the age of six or seven. Within those images, there are others we don’t know
about that lower their superpower so that they are more susceptible and become
part of the robotic, numeric system that controls much of the media,” he added.

The rapper and gospel singer
recently took his religious performance to the Harris County Jail in Houston,
Texas, where inmates were thrilled to his ‘Jesus is King’ album.